Hello all, Left our home on the near West side at about 445 for a quick hour and a half ride before dinner...I'm thinking maybe 5 dozen plus cyclists (a dozen plus of that number young children!) and pedestrians on my way out and back from the trail head in Fitchburg down past Basco...GREAT to see! yes its open..congrats to the Friends of the Badger Trail and other advocates for making it happen! Make one of your goals before the bad weather sets in to ride to the tunnel south of Belleville..very cool! (literally too) Down the line wayfinding signs for restroom and retail/services will be great additions...and warning signage about the more dangerous high speed vehicle traffic crossings...be careful!
--- On Mon, 10/11/10, Sean B. Cash <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sean B. Cash <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Bikies] Badger State Trail status? To: [email protected] Date: Monday, October 11, 2010, 9:02 AM Hi All, Three weeks ago there were still portions of the trail blocked off with barriers (yet there was substantial traffic along those portions of the trail regardless). Yesterday, all of these barriers were gone. I think that's a pretty clear sign that the trail is officially open. Best regards, Sean On Oct 10, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Mitchell Nussbaum wrote: I rode the Badger Trail on Saturday, and it was fine. There were some signs of recent work (e.g. the wooden frames on some of the railings) but the trail was open and very bikeable. I do hope that at some point they put up signs marking the cross-roads, to help bikers orient themselves. It would also be nice to have signs pointing the way to nearby destinations. I had been planning to ride to Paoli; but I discovered that Sun Valley Parkway crossed the trail on a rather high bridge. I should have remembered this (I will next time), but signs would be nice. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Torrey" <[email protected]> To: "Patrick Lenon" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 9, 2010 10:51:12 PM Subject: Re: [Bikies] Badger State Trail status? I biked it Tuesday and went about 20 miles south of Madison and back. Workmen were putting up signs Tuesday. In fact I saw 2 workmen put up a stop sign as I rolled to the intersection. I announced that I was the first person that had to stop at that street. It is open. It is very nice! Torrey -------Original Message------- From: Patrick Lenon <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bikies] Badger State Trail status? Sent: 09 Oct '10 21:41 Looks pretty good, judging from... ummm... the latest Google Earth pictures, yeah, that's the ticket... Seriously, as long as there's no active work going on, you should be ok. Looks like the rails on either side of the bridges are done, maybe some painting left to do. Lots of traffic on the trail in any case. ------------ Patrick Lenon -------------------- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 21:28:26 -0500 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [Bikies] Badger State Trail status? Is the Badger State Trail finished yet through Fitchburg? Tomorrow will be SO nice...a casual ride down to Illinois is tempting. The Badger Trail promotion site says it's open: [LINK: http://www.badger-trail.com/] http://www.badger-trail.com/ DNR's web site still says it's closed: [LINK: http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/parks/specific/badger/] http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/parks/specific/badger/ "The 6 miles from Purcell Road to Lovell Lane, near the Madison-Fitchburg city limits is closed until paving is complete." BFW's web site event listing for the grand opening in mid-September said it was 1.1 miles from Cty M to Purcell that was not open yet, not 6 miles. Then there was a request on the bikies list from someone at DNR I think to NOT use the trail for safety and allowing workers to finish their work unencumbered. But hey..winter's coming--so... What's the scoop? Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org -------------------- _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [LINK: [email protected]] [email protected] [LINK: http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
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